Amongst the _Bouquets_, as Dr. Burney denominated the fragrant
flatteries courteously lavished, in its day, on the Memoirs of an
Heiress, few were more odorous to him than those offered by the famous
old Wits, Soame Jenyns and Owen Cambridge.
Soame Jenyns, at the age of seventy-eight, condescended to make
interest with Mrs. Ord to arrange an acquaintance for him, at her house
in Queen Ann-street, with the father and the daughter.
Soame Jenyns is so well known as an author, and was in his time so
eminent as a wit; and his praise gave such pleasure to Dr. Burney, that
another genuine letter, written for Mr. Crisp at the moment, with an
account of the meeting, will be here abridged, as characteristically
marking the parental gratification of the Doctor.